AKERMAN, Joachim. Examen Observationum de frictione Corporum solidorum.
..in Lyceo Carol. d. XXX Octobr. MDCCCXXIV. One engraved plate. 1 p.l., 16 pp.; 1 p.l., 17-32 pp.; 1 p.l., 33-56 pp.; 1 p.l., 57-76 pp. Four parts in one vol. 8vo, modern wrappers, uncut. Gothburg: Berling, 1824. A very rare collection of dissertations on friction. The respondents were C.P. Millberg, Paulus Johannes Boström, Nicolaus Petrus Angelin, and Laurentius Ericus Carlborg. Akerman (1798-1876), taught chemistry at the Technical Institute at Stockholm. Later he was superintendent of the mining school at Fahlun and professor of metallurgy. Between 1846 and 1848, he reorganized the Technical Institute in Stockholm. Fine copy, preserved in a blue calf-backed box. This copy bears the stamp on title of Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), professor of chemistry at Abo. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. Poggendorff, I, 21. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 6-7.
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